Real Estate Blog - Florida Short Sale

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Based on the figures obtained by the Orlando Regional Realtors Association, only 25 percent of the total home sales in January involved traditional sellers. This means 75 percent of the home sales involved distressed properties including short sale and repo homes. Experts believe the reason behi...
03/13/2011
Homeowners looking for a way out of their mortgage mess know there are several options available to them. For starters, you can choose to discuss with your lender the possibility of a loan modification in order to keep your home. Of course, if you discovered you can no longer afford your home, y...
03/10/2011
The Florida housing market is currently showing a trend where buyers prefer to buy properties in distress such as short sales and foreclosures because of the bigger savings they get to enjoy. In fact, the state’s existing homes sales activity reveals at least 20 percent of the total sales involv...
03/10/2011
The housing market, despite its enduring problems, is certainly benefiting from a new trend these days — cash buyers. More and more markets are being swept by this trend especially regions where short sale properties are in abundance. So why is cash (buyers) king these days? Cheap Prices For sta...
03/06/2011
As home prices in Florida continue to fall, more and more investors and home buyers are getting off the sidelines and taking advantage of the opportunity to buy a cheap home. But what is surprising is that cash buyers are actually dominating the housing market. A report from the National Associa...
02/28/2011
According to a report released by real estate tracking firm RealtyTrac, the price gap between Orlando traditional and foreclosures and short sales has shrunk considerably. In 2010, there was only a 24 percent difference between these two types of properties for sale compared to 30 percent the pr...
02/27/2011
  The housing market problem is not actually only confined to borrowers having trouble with their mortgage payments. There is also a growing number of homeowners who are finding themselves with a home whose property has declined at a level which left them with more debt than home equity. Since 20...
02/23/2011
Homeowners who took out mortgage loans and found themselves unable to keep up with the mortgage payments due to illness, loss of job or divorce will be glad to know there is a great exit strategy — a short sale. In addition to distressed borrowers, a short sale is also a great problem solver for...
02/17/2011
A report from Zillow revealed how short sales are became the favorites of home buyers last year. Traditional home sellers are even looking at short sale properties as competition, prompting one out of five sellers to slash prices by an average of 9.4 percent. The large volume of distressed prope...
02/16/2011
In real estate, a short sale usually means the sale of a property at an amount less than what is owed to the mortgage lender. Of course, the lender needs to approve the transaction since they are the ones who would not be able to recover their losses. Form a buyers’ perspective, a short sale off...
02/16/2011
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Real estate in Florida is ever changing so to keep up with the times please frequent this blog. At the forefront of our market right now are short sales. As a Realtor in Florida I have been working with those who need to sell their homes as a short sale.